Professional Development Activity Leadership Description
While serving as the Technology Instructional Coach for the Franklin Area School District from August of 2010 to October of 2013 I was responsible for all technology focused professional development and held multiple pd sessions. These trainings ranged from just-in-time job embedded training with an individual teacher to district-wide large group instruction, as well as everything in between. During the second semester of the 2010-2011 school year I worked in collaboration with Connie Cunningham, my peer at our neighboring district (Valley Grove School District), to provide over 35 hours of after-school technology training to the teachers of both districts and local parochial schools. We split the work evenly though I was a newbie and Connie a seasoned instructional coach/technology integrator.
We held a total of 23 different sessions. Some sessions were co-taught and some were facilitated by one of us. The content covered web 2.0 tools, SMART Technologies, instructional best practices, Google Apps for Education, Moodle, and other technology related topics. Some sessions were stand alone while some were held on multiple days. Three topics were repeated due to the number of teachers who registered. Most sessions were held face-to-face but we also utilized IlluminateLive (Blackboard) to conduct webinar style training to provide flexibility. For the webinars some teachers chose to stay at school and participate individual from their classrooms while others took laptops to a common area and participated in a group setting. Several teachers choose to participate from home due to childcare issues.
Participation was completely voluntary on the part of the teachers . However, both districts for teachers to receive credit toward re-certification.
We used a Google Form for registration and I sent confirmations and reminders to teachers via email. In total we provided approximately 45 hours of instruction spread from January through the first week of May. Attending two sessions ensured that a teacher received the minimum of 4 hours of professional development credit. Seventy-seven out of approximately 150 teachers in the Franklin Area School District obtained credit. A handful only attended one-session. The hours of credit earned by teachers from FASD ranged from 4 to 36. I do not know the particulars of participation from Valley Grove as each district kept their own records.
While serving as the Technology Instructional Coach for the Franklin Area School District from August of 2010 to October of 2013 I was responsible for all technology focused professional development and held multiple pd sessions. These trainings ranged from just-in-time job embedded training with an individual teacher to district-wide large group instruction, as well as everything in between. During the second semester of the 2010-2011 school year I worked in collaboration with Connie Cunningham, my peer at our neighboring district (Valley Grove School District), to provide over 35 hours of after-school technology training to the teachers of both districts and local parochial schools. We split the work evenly though I was a newbie and Connie a seasoned instructional coach/technology integrator.
We held a total of 23 different sessions. Some sessions were co-taught and some were facilitated by one of us. The content covered web 2.0 tools, SMART Technologies, instructional best practices, Google Apps for Education, Moodle, and other technology related topics. Some sessions were stand alone while some were held on multiple days. Three topics were repeated due to the number of teachers who registered. Most sessions were held face-to-face but we also utilized IlluminateLive (Blackboard) to conduct webinar style training to provide flexibility. For the webinars some teachers chose to stay at school and participate individual from their classrooms while others took laptops to a common area and participated in a group setting. Several teachers choose to participate from home due to childcare issues.
Participation was completely voluntary on the part of the teachers . However, both districts for teachers to receive credit toward re-certification.
We used a Google Form for registration and I sent confirmations and reminders to teachers via email. In total we provided approximately 45 hours of instruction spread from January through the first week of May. Attending two sessions ensured that a teacher received the minimum of 4 hours of professional development credit. Seventy-seven out of approximately 150 teachers in the Franklin Area School District obtained credit. A handful only attended one-session. The hours of credit earned by teachers from FASD ranged from 4 to 36. I do not know the particulars of participation from Valley Grove as each district kept their own records.